Body experience: sadness and love

This is the story of a woman who learned to love herself completely — through trust, vulnerability in her nakedness, and infinite tenderness for both her body and her heart.

Body experience: sadness and love

The story of one adoption

Coming to fully embrace and love one’s body can be a profound and challenging journey, yet Natasha, my dear old friend, has walked it with incredible grace.

Over the past four years her body has changed significantly. She moved through many stages of deep self-acceptance, learning to meet herself exactly as she is now — and she has done so beautifully, even though the path was far from easy.

The result was her complete, unguarded nudity in front of my camera — a quiet, powerful act of trust and self-assurance.

I saw how utterly at ease and natural she felt in her own skin. I also saw the very real challenges life sometimes brings, yet she met them with love and care for the body she has today.

To me, this is one of the bravest things a woman can do. Even with the growing body-positivity movement, wider bodies are still met with judgment and stigma in so many places.

I feel deeply grateful and truly honored to have been part of this session. It was an important, heartfelt experience for me as well.